Winners of the Week 2017
Design – Adobe Creative Jam
- Theme: Poke the Bear [https://www.behance.net/gallery/54191573/San-Diego-Startup-Week-Creative-Jam]
- JUDGE’S CHOICE AWARD – 1st Place: Team EFM: Colt Solano
- JUDGE’S CHOICE AWARD – 2nd Place: Team CRUX: Phillip Faniola & Katie Frehafer
- PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD – TIE: Team The Tables Have Kerned: Brett Marshall & Taylor Bastone
- PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD – TIE: Team Innova: Tara Jensen & John Alexander
Bio/Med – MedStartr Pitch Fest
- Hear biotech startups do their best 5 minute pitch to investors and fellow entrepreneurs in a pitch competition organized by MedStartr
- Crowd voted fav – Kinaptic – Joseph Curcio
- 2nd Place – Glyconmedics – Nick Gorgani
- 1st Place – Cellanyx – Ashok Chander
CleanTech – Green Pitch Slam
San Diego is a hub of CleanTech innovation, which was demonstrated by the exciting Green Pitch Slam event held yesterday! We are very excited to present the top 3 winners of this extremely close competition.
- 3rd Place – VOR
- 2nd Place – Aquam
- 1st place – Icarus
CleanTech / CyberSecurity – Smart Cities Hackathon
These contestants put together an app that will help solve problems with traffic, parking, public safety, urban planning, and environmental challenges.
- 3rd Place ($500) – Changuen Park
- Created a Parking Optimization App
- 2nd Place ($1,000) – Rauhmel Fox
- Created an app to help report possible drunk drivers
- 1st Place ($2,000) – Daniel Heriman
- Created an app to help business owners find the ideal location for their storefront
Future – IoT Challenge
Contestants were given gadgets, hardware, sensors, etc to create something extraordinary.
- 5th Place – Coffeebot, Neelima Sharma
- 4th Place – Team Tosti, Ashley Khor & Andrew Lam
- 3rd Place – GoCane, Andrew Cadwallander
- 2nd Place – Beybi Tracker, Burak Dugan
- 1st Place – Letsrobot.tv, Jose Montraverde
Winners received Windows Azure Passes
Social – Founders Fight Club
- Chad Triton of Koriist
Developer – Mindtouch / AWS – Serverless Hackathon’
“We had 10 teams create a running text-based adventure engine as an Alexa Skill application complete with voice prompts and original story within 2h30. It was fun. It was awesome. It was epic!”
- LambdaSharp